In 2017 in the initial days of Donald Trump’s first term, he instituted a government hiring freeze while exempting "essential ...

William W. Lothrop was named interim Bureau of Prisons director after Colette Peters' resignation, as the president aims to ...

Colette S. Peters had served as director of the Oregon Department of Corrections for a decade when she took over the federal ...

President Trump will be remaking the Department of Justice. Here is what can he do with the Bureau of Prisons.

The order reverses Biden’s ban on private prison contracts with the Justice Department. Private immigrant detention never ...

The Trump administration is directing the Justice Department to dramatically boost its efforts on immigration enforcement, ...

Just days before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office, the Department of Justice has announced its decision to ...

A memo asserts that state and local officials are bound to cooperate and could face criminal prosecution or civil penalties ...

Georgia’s prisons would cooperate with federal authorities, Heath said. But the Justice Department’s “track ... the ...

The Justice Department is directing its federal prosecutors to investigate for potential criminal charges any state or local ...

Federal prosecutors are told in no uncertain terms that they will be on the front lines of an administration-wide effort to ...